There are musicians and there are truckloads of them. They create music, acquire a fan base(small or large), and create more music to divide the fan base into the "old school" and the "open minded".
And every once in a while, a musician walks on the planet who is extra ordinary and sets the bar so high for his/her peers which is difficult to scale.
Devin Townsend is one such musician and Ghost is the flag that he has put on top of the mountain he has created and scaled with his career prior to before.
Ghost is not heavy. Ghost is not about the riffs. Ghost is not about the bass lines. Ghost isn't about the humour that Devin so delicately blends with metal.
What Ghost does is take to you to another world and keeps you there throughout the 70 odd minutes. And if that world had anything to do with Ghosts, they are friendly and sing soothing numbers to you. The different layers on the tracks blend really well and create the atmosphere which can soothe a disturbed soul in minutes and make it stay in that state for a long while.
There are flavours of folk and country music(I felt so) which gives the album an entirely different feel from the rest of the albums from Townsend's catalogue. This is definitely one of the better albums that anyone will come across. Ghost is a pinnacle in musicianship that will require a great amount of effort to better.
